General Election - 4th July 2024

[TinFoilHat]

Johnson looked like an absolute bag of shite today. He doesn’t look like he’s in a happy place at all.

No one giving him the attention his ego craves anymore.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

These Conservative ads are getting a bit silly now.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Where I'm at.

Who do you think can make this country any better, as we can all agree, it’s got progressively worse?

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Johnson looked like an absolute bag of shite today. He doesn’t look like he’s in a happy place at all.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Absolute fucking bellend right to the very death

I am becoming quite a fan of Sophy Ridge deconstructing them one by one.

“Well when you actually say the policy out loud like that, it does sound a bit fucking stupid doesn’t it?”

More broadcasters should be saying the policy out loud like that. Because it’s a nonsense no sane person would agree with.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

These Conservative ads are getting a bit silly now.

That can’t be an official Tory ad?

The only people that would have any pull for would be the paranoid, who ain’t gonna vote. Any other person would be asking questions of such stupidity.

 

[liveandletdive]

Brainwashed beyond belief.

Nope, eyes wide open more like..

 

[liveandletdive]

Most of the welfare state is state pensions.
Another massive chunk goes to working people to subsidise inadequate wages and excessive rents. (I'm quite up for not subsidising bad employers and greedy landlords, but are the Tories?)
Another chunk goes on disability benefits, including those paid to disabled people in work. (You can claim PIP and work if you qualify, and as it is (rightly) not means-tested you could be the MD of a FTSE 100 company in theory.)
What people go on about is the money given to long-term unemployed, and that is petty cash in the scheme of things. If it was stopped tomorrow, I doubt you'd get 10p off your tax. But you would get a whole lot of extra crime in exchange.

(EDIT) Forgot to point out that the 'economically inactive' includes full-time students and all those people over 55 who have retired on private pensions, and don't need to work anymore as they have enough to carry them through to state pension age and beyond. These people aren't going to work unless you seize their assets.

When you say "seize their assets" do you mean steal my investments, pension, shares, the things I have worked hard for my whole working life..?

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

When you say "seize their assets" do you mean steal my investments, pension, shares, the things I have worked hard for my whole working life..?

Why should they seize your assets, it’s just a part of Tory ‘Pj Fear’.

Personally, your assets should be yours and if that happened, and I have supported Labour for the last few years, then I’d be questioning my own vote. But I have no questions on this and the answer lies within the current tax system.

In my early 50s, i already have a decent pension that I can take now and will pay taxes on the majority of it. Do I worry that Labour will take more than what the Tories would take, not at all.

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

Rebuild the NHS